What can you do?

As an Arsenal supporter and if you genuinely care about Arsenal, what can you do about this?

This has been much commented upon for years now but blithely ignored by many myself included. There's a malaise taken hold of our club that runs from the boardroom to the management to the players to the performances on the pitch.

Let's start at the top with the boardroom. Why are they doing nothing to arrest the slide of our team? Why haven't our team been invested in? You know why, they've become obsessed with running Arsenal as a slick financial machine and care little and probably nothing for the feelings of the true fan. Raising ticket prices to maximise potential revenues when our home support was already highly bourgeouis (damaging the team) couldn't indicate more how much creedence these people give to our well-being.

They are also Wenger's employers and thus are charged with ensuring that he does his job. Yet, they make blanket statements assuring Wenger of a job for life which is completely unhealthy for a team. Wenger has performed miracles in keeping us in such a lofty position all the while performing spectacularly on the economic side of things. But it's the latter that has kept a grin on the faces of the board members this long ensuring Wenger's perpetual, pressureless reign. However, performing these sort of miracles can only go so long and the consequential and inevitable decline was always likely to prove tortuously slow. This is proving to be exactly the case. This is what's happening to us, to our club.

As for Wenger, well, he'll always be a genius but a flawed one at that. How has he contributed to our gradual downfall? By keeping faith in subpar players to the point of breathtaking arrogance. By systematically removing leaders from the team over the course of the last six years. By rigidly sticking with formations and tactics that are visibly not working, again to the point of arrogance. By failing to discipline our playing staff who now almost one and all have a cavalier school tour attitude.

He's also so immersed in his methods that he point blank refuses to accept any criticism of his methods, seek any help for example on the defensive side of things, and recently dismissed 40,000 supporters angrily howling as a mere one or two dissenting voices. That's arrogance.

On the playing front, we have some outstanding players in our team who could raise their game and not capitulate at the first hurdle under different tutelage. However, there are also a couple of weak players who will never have what it takes to restore us to our position of yesteryear, but this article isn't a subjective witchhunt. Largely though, it's difficult to put much blame on them. Erratic and unmotivated performances are the responsibility of the management. So are underpeforming players getting their game. It's not, say Ramsey's place to dispute his inclusion in the team and tell Wenger he hasn't earned it.

So, I've been wondering what I can do as an Arsenal supporter instead of posting articles complaining about the team. Some posters here gave out about the booing during the United game and the black-bin protest which ultimately never materialised. It's their perogative to say that getting behind the team is what's needed here, but if they think our club will turn the ship around whilst things continue the same then to put it politely, I disagree. Not sure how you could care about Arsenal and sit idly by as this malaise gradually rips our club apart.

Not posting this to garner responses or even debate here. I'm an Arsenal supporter first and a forum poster second and so from tomorrow I'm writing to whoever I can at Arsenal to let them know how I feel and ask them to either change or step aside. If I were able to attend matches, I'd do whatever I can to let my feelings known there. Just to wrap this up, the distinction between protesting the management and especially the board, and tearing into our players should be made here. If zero people turned up at our next home game I'd be delighted. Not to hurt the players but to send the people running our club a message. And that message is that enough is enough.